EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH A. D. TSYURUPA

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1)Whoand when are you sending to the local areas
(Schlichter, Bryukhanov, who else? and where to?)?

2)We’vehad a talk with Pravdin (he arrived today
from Tula,Yelets, Orel).

Thereis grain,exemplary order,power in the hands of the poor peasants.

3)Whoare you sending to Tambov and with what
detachments? Should not Bryukhanov be sent there? Themostenergetic person is needed there.

(TodayI had a talk with people from Tambov; the
harvest is unprecedented; there is alsooldgrain; the kulaks
can be brought to heel, but there is a lack oforganisersanddetachments.)

4)Arewe going to put up with the absence of a (food)
dictatorship in Moscow? It’s a scandal! A disgrace!

Schlichteris going to Yefremov Uyezd, Tula Gubernia. I sent a
comrade to Zinoviev in Petrograd (or workers for his detachment.Urgent loadingof goodsis in progressat present. In about5 days’
timehe will set
out.[1]

Fivedays for an exchange of telegrams with Zinoviev
(who long ago was asking where to send detachments) and
for loading the goods (1 day??).

Thisismonstrousred tape. Appoint ten officials—
scoundrels from the Food Commissariat—and demand that
everything be donein 1 dayorin 2 days, otherwise
dismissal and prosecution.

[1]Underlinedby Lenin.—Ed.